The typical animal cell measures about 10 microns, or 0.001 centimeters, in diameter. Which is unsurprising—cells are small! that's sort of the point!—and, at the same time, curious. Animals exhibit ...

According to the textbook view of long-range vesicle transport in animal cells, vesicles move over long distances along polarized microtubules that originate from the centrosome 1,2,3,4. In a typical ...